Kentucky baseball accomplished something this week that no other program in the Southeastern Conference was able to pull off — and it happened off the diamond, too.
On Thursday, the Bat ‘Cats were recognized by the American Baseball Coaches Association with the organization’s Team Academic Excellence Award for 2022-23. Kentucky is the only SEC program to receive this honor in each of the previous six years. The ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award is handed out to high school and college baseball teams that post a cumulative team grade point average over 3.